Scr�obh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Quoting Peter Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> If it's really necessary to facilitate that, Marion (or whoever) should >> propose a variation-selector sequence. >I don't know why it didn't occur to me before, but there's actually a very >logical argument to support this necessity. > >In Irish writing that uses the dot-convention, the dot represents lenition. >Vowel phonemes are not liable to lenition, so it doesn't make any sense to >have >a dotted i, any more than a dotted a, e, o, or u.
Exactly my point. I believe I had a similar conversation in February 14 yrs ago, with a newly-arrived American lad (when I was still on my first Mac and a VM100) who traded me, for a copy of � D�naill's dictionary (and I considered cheap at the price), a poor, raggedy attempt at an Irish font my Department refused to purchase, but which fired my hungry soul's imagination. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 P�irc an Fh�ithlinn, Baile an Bh�thair, Co. �tha Cliath, �ire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
